Some old movies
2 seconds each, so won't break your modem.
Filmed in 1888 on paper strips, these are credited as being the first and second moving pictures ever made, a full 6 years before the Lumiere brothers' more famous attempts. And thanks to the internet, available for all to see.
Awe at the internet is not fashionable I know, but isn't it incredible that the old woman in the garden scene died later that same year, 118 years ago, but we can still see her walk around, if only for two seconds?
Filmed in 1888 on paper strips, these are credited as being the first and second moving pictures ever made, a full 6 years before the Lumiere brothers' more famous attempts. And thanks to the internet, available for all to see.
Awe at the internet is not fashionable I know, but isn't it incredible that the old woman in the garden scene died later that same year, 118 years ago, but we can still see her walk around, if only for two seconds?
posted by Sagremor the Foolish at 4:01 PM
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They're amazingly sharp and clear, aren't they? And seem less jerky than, say, film of WW1 - was the filming speed different earlier on? (I know the 1914 ones were slowed down for modern showing)
These survive thanks to a later celluloid film being made of them, so their clarity is all the more amazing. Back then, there was no standard frames per second rate - different films ran at different speeds depending on the camera and settings used. Later, when it was standardised at 24fps, many old films ran too fast. Not ridiculously so, Nosferatu for example runs at 20fps, but enough that silent movies are thought of as being slightly fast, imagine a scene of a woman being tied to railway tracks and you'll know what I mean. even WW1 film is now 90 years old, and a lot had deteriorated sharply before it reached us. Add to this that it's very easy to damage a frame or two on a projector, and just as easy to fix, snipping them out and splicing it back together, leaving the slightest (fraction of a second) jump in the footage. Finally remember that the nitrate film used then was inherantly unstable and prone to combustion.
None of this explains the clarity of these 2 films here, I can only put that down to plain old good luck
I'm impressed by your knowledge, however!
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